“We’re all still fighting for equality and social justice and inclusion.” “I cannot wait to see the campus come through here and see the various quotes, hear the audio and be here in community with each other celebrating the legacy of Dr. Greedley Harris, director of strategic partnerships for USC Student Equity and Inclusion Programs, praised the students for successfully connecting history back to themselves and to the community. If we have more compassion, we are able to achieve more.” “But he also was really big on compassion and love, and those are two things that really unify our world. “Everything we read in school was very concrete and pertained mostly to civil rights and activism,” she said. Lawrence, a psychology major at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said curating the exhibit gave her insights into King’s spirituality. King’s impact and legacy this way is so meaningful to me as someone who loves art and who loves to write and who thinks that those things add so much to our world.” Insights into King’s spirituality at MLK in Los Angeles exhibit “A lot of this exhibition was a learning experience for me,” said Freeman, a public relations major at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.“Getting to celebrate Dr. The exhibit’s volunteer student curators - Kymia Freeman, Endiya Griffin and Sasha Lawrence - sought to honor King’s legacy with the quotes as well as never-before-seen images and audio and video recordings chronicling his visits to USC and South Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s. They are still pertinent to us to this day.” “These quotes are what he stood for and are the messages he tried to project. “The idea was to make his quotes and his words look as large as they feel when you hear them,” Peji said.
Taking up a wall from ceiling to floor is King’s quote in reaction to the Watts Rebellion in 1965: “The catastrophe in Los Angeles was a result of seething and rumbling tensions throughout our nation and, indeed, the world.” Other King quotes given mural treatment include the famous “The time is always right to do right” and “Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy,” which King said during a 1964 speech at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. USC Roski School of Art and Design third-year student Nicolette Peji designed the exhibit and wanted it to have “as much loudness and kindness as it could,” with the goal of emulating King’s messages about unity, faith and strength. Kymia Freeman and Sasha Lawrence, two of the exhibits co-curators, and designer Nicolette Peji, from left, attend the opening of MLK in Los Angeles at the USC Fisher Museum of Art.
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